The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-13

OF forks and spoons the newest thing to
say is that they show this winter a marked
tendency toward individuality. Sets re-
Gently made for wealthy New York lady
showed no two of the same design. The
bowls of the Spoons preserved the same
oval, but the handles as we'll as those of the
forks we're in every case differently dec
GRATED. One showed a long-le2ged grass
hopper on a spray of oats; another field
! flowers third leaping frog a fourth,
| shrimp; and others, butterflies, roses, valley
| lilies and so on through the animal and veg
! etable creation.
There is some progress toward differen-
| tiating silver spoons according 70 their dec
| orations for different courses at table, to
| correspond with the courses in china and
porcelain so generally used, Soup ladies
indicate their purpose by designs of round,
nodding tomatoes or turtles crawl mp and
down the handle, and silver for thS fish
| course is fairly well marked off Fancy
has full SWING in celebrating designs for the
very dainty and lavisbly costly after-din-
| neF coffee spoons which make so prominent
feature of modern sideboard plenishings.
The coffee spoon is this winter smaller than
ever and it has bowl lined with gold or is
all in some antique silver design. One
fancy, which takes in New York and which
has the advantage OF being very American
and somewhat archaeological at the same
time is to have coffee spoons somewhat
after the notion of the Old apostle spoons,
but instead of Peter and the other Biblical
worthless the handle of each spoon is sur
mounted by an Indian in native costume.
going each one through a different war
dance characteristic of the tribes. An Cd
der fancy than this and still catering to the
desire for individuality is dozen 'harle-
uuin'' coffee spooos, of different sizes and
shapes and illustrating every variety and
grade of art from the highest French, Italian
and old Greek types TO the Oriental ana
down to the lowest Cannibal island grades.
The highest point that decorative art has
ever reached, perhaps, in regulation spoons
and forks for utilitar!an table ware is
illustrated by an extremely beautiful set
with deliberately wrought designs from the
Greek mythoiogies. These "Olympian"
spoons show Hebe watched over by the eagle
of Jove. upon the oyster ladle; Venus born
of the sea upon the table spoons Orpheus
in search Of Eurydice, on the desert spoons:
Diana and her nymphs, surprised by Pan.
on the teaspoon: baccbantcs amusing Bac-
chus, on the coffee spoon; Hercules captur
ing the wild boar, on the meat carver:
Actaeon. changed by Diana into a stag, de-
voured by his own deg, on the game carver,
and SO on through pictures OF Hercules and
Onphale, Bacchus feeding the panther with
grapes, the sleeping Diana, Sylvanus in
Striictiur the satyrs, ctc., the whole so mi
nutely and delicately wrought out as to be
continual pleasure to the eye.
The fad Of the season is bonbon spoons.
Ladies afflicted with Anglomnnia are pay
ing of their bets on tho Thistle in them
vet. A bonbOn spoon affects the antique.
IT. has a large round bowl and large ex-
handed and quaintly-fashioned top With q
ring in the handle after the style OF the
DAYS when the mistress OF the house wore
her spoon hanging at hex grde 10 taste the
SOUP for the family meal while IL was cook
ing. Mauy of them are exact reproductions
OF old English spoons, wrought ia antique
silver. aud with the wealth OF curious de-
tail work expended o. them the honbon
SPOONS cost n modern lady OF the brown
stone front anywhere from $40 10 $50 or
800.
OF the smaller novelties Of table ware,
the crane fingers much talked Of three
months ago were n notion that did not last
Nobody ever used them and a silversmith
laughs in your tace II you speak about
them. People bought a few for curiosties
and to give away, but nobody ever saw or
heard OF person who does not to this day
take his own hesh-and-blOod fingers TO eat
cranes with. Grape scissors are a different
thing and useful article withal. The latest
convenience devised is gravy spoon with q
partition through the middle of the bowl to
allow the lighter Fat to separate itself from
the thicker fluid.
In a general way the two STYLES that will
be most prevalent in silver services, silver
vases and silver decorative pieces Of all de-
scliptions this winter will be the Louis
XVI. and the Queen Anne.~ The French
style is readily distinguished wherever one
sees it by its curved surfaces, reminding one
of the Louis XVI. chairs and tables and by
a macmillan. curly decoration. Tire Queen
Anne shapes arc as characteristic in silver
as in architecture, and show quaint forms
and lace-hke fTetwork borders. Etching
has been of great assistance to the artist in
silver. and facilitates his work wonderfully.
An etched silver salver in design Of trail
ing vines and flowers gives minuteness Of
detail hardly 20 be had in any other way.
Every bud, every curlcd lear, comes out
dajntilv clear. and even the texture Of deli